Great Communication Quotes

You can't be focussed without really great communication

Great communication begins with connection.

Talk to someone about themselves and they'll listen for hours.

Friendship requires great communication.

Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.

A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while, he knows something.

Great communication, Character, Competitive drive, Consistency, Compassion, Confidence -- skills successful leaders share.

The less people know, the more they yell.

Of all of our inventions for mass communication, pictures still speak the most universally understood language.

Words should be used as tools of communication and not as a substitute for action

The two words 'information' and 'communication' are often used interchangeably, but they signify quite different things. Information is giving out; communication is getting through.

You know, Quincy Jones was a great mentor, but he was a man in a man's world. Fortunately he's a very sensitive man and a beautiful human being, and even though he was 14 or 15 years older than me, he's a capable human being and has great communication skills.

When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen.

The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.

I would rediscover the secret of great communications and great combustions. I would say storm. I would say river. I would say tornado. I would say leaf. I would say tree. I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.

Communication works for those who work at it.

We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

Communication - the human connection - is the key to personal and career success.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired.

The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

Effective communication is 20% what you know and 80% how you feel about what you know.

The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

There are five fundamental qualities that make every team great: communication, trust, collective responsibility, caring and pride. I like to think of each as a separate finger on the fist. Any one individually is important. But all of them together are unbeatable

Evil communication corrupts good manners. I hope to live to hear that good communication corrects bad manners.

To effectively communicate, we must realize that we are all different in the way we perceive the world and use this understanding as a guide to our communication with others.

The way we communicate with others and with ourselves ultimately determines the quality of our lives.

Take advantage of every opportunity to practice your communication skills so that when important occasions arise, you will have the gift, the style, the sharpness, the clarity, and the emotions to affect other people.

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere.

A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation.

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.